The Halo Effect and telerik
I was perusing my usual portion of blogs this morning when I saw
this post (thanks to the superb blogsearch.google.com engine). It seems
that the guys from
Bungie are using telerik tools
(RadEditor, RadAjax to name a few) on their community site!
This is huge for me for a couple of reasons. Bungie's site is very heavy on traffic
and I suspect hundreds of thousands of users are visiting their forums every month.
They are using
RadEditor for content entry and
RadAjax
for site updates - a real hard real-life test for our products. The second
reason - Bungie is the producer of one of my favourite games - Halo 1/2 (2 being
the best selling game of all time). I've personally played Halo 2 for a long-time
and Halo 3 is the one and only reason I'm buying a Xbox 360.
There is a little technical perk that I've noticed too - the guys are using r.ad..editor
5.6 - we've produced this version prior to the rich editing support of Opera 9.
They got one clever hack working on their site:
...
// workaround for opera and RadEditor 5.6.5
function HideEditorUpdateCancelButtons(editorClientID) {
var oCancelButton = document.getElementByID("RadECancelButton" + editorClientID);
oCancelButton.style.display = "none";
var oUpdateButton = document.getElementByID("RadEUpdateButton" + editorClientID);
oUpdateButton.style.display = "none";
}
...
Cool idea. No need to do that anymore though - the new
RadEditor 6.5 provides support for Opera 9.